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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 105. 



The substance of what appears in Elrington's 

 Life of Ussher bad been long before stated by 

 Dr. Thomas Smith in his Vita Jacohi Usserii, apud 

 Vita quorimdam Erudit. et lllust. Viroriun ; but if, 

 in addition, Pekegrinus would consult May's 

 History of the Long Parliament; Echard's History 

 of England, bk. ii. ch. i.; Whitelocke's Memorials, 

 p. 45.; Itushworth ; Collier s Ecclesiastical History, 

 t. ii. p. 801. ; Dr. Knowler, in Preface to 21ie Eui-l 

 of Strafford' s Letters and Dispatches ; Dr. South, in 

 Sermon on Rom. xi. 33.; and Sir Geornfe Itadcliile's 

 Essay in Appendix to Letters, tVc. of Lord Straf- 

 ford, t. ii. p. 43'2., I doubt not but that he will 

 come to the conclusion that the above sketch is 

 only consistent with stern fact. AV. Du. 



SCTJLPTUKED STONES IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND. 



(Vol. iv., p. 86.) 



Aeerdontensis tells us that Mr. Chalmers, of 

 Auldbar, had got drawings of the sculptured 

 stone obelisks "in Angus lithographed for the 

 Baunatyne Club, and that the work had excited 

 considerable interest, and that the Spalding Club 

 of Aberdeen are now obtaining drawings of the 

 stones of this description in the north of Scotland. 

 Circulars from the Spalding Club desiring _ in- 

 formation had been sent to a large number of the 

 clergy, to which answers had been received only 

 from a small portion, and he desired further in- 

 formation. These monuments, he states, are not 

 to be found soutli of the Forth, and I am tokl not 

 further north than Sutherlandshire. It would be 

 desirable to know what these sculptured obelisks 

 and the sculptures on them are ; if symbolical, of 

 what, or what they serve to illustrate; the sup- 

 posed race and date to which they are referable. 

 What the Veronese antiquarians, Slaffei and Bian- 

 chinl, did from the nation's ancient remains to 

 throw light on history, shows what may be done. 

 In Orkney no sculptured stone, or stone with a 

 runic inscription, has been noticed among _ its 

 circles of standing stones, or single bantasteins ; 

 and though it is right to admit that attention has 

 , not been \lirected to seeking them, yet I do not 

 I believe they could have escaped observation had 

 I there been any such. The absence of runic stones 

 in Orkney appears singular in a country certainly 

 Scandinavian from its concpiest by Harold Har- 

 fiiger, king of Norway, a.d. 895 (or periiaps 

 eaV-lier), till its transfer to Scotland in 1468 in 

 mortgage for a part of the marriage portion of the 

 Danish princess whobecame the queen of James III. 

 of Scotland by treaty between the countries of 

 Denmark and Norway and Scotland. In Zetland 

 Dr. Hibbert noticed a few ruins, and within these 

 few days the peregrinations of the Spalding Club 

 have brought to notice, in the Island of Bruray, 

 a stone of runic state, having inscribed on it let- 



ters like runic characters, and sculptures in relief, 

 but decayed. A drawing is being made of it, to 

 satisfy antiquarian curiosity. It may merit notice 

 that no runic stones have been found in Orkney, 

 nor circles of standing stones in Zetland. The 

 sculptures of classic antic[uity have been made use 

 of to elucidate history, and it is equally to be 

 desired that those Scottish sculptured remains 

 should, if possible, be rescued from what Sir Fran- 

 cis Palgrave calls the "speechless past," and made 

 to tell their talc in illustration of the earlier period 

 of Scottish or Caledonian story. W. H. F. 



ANAGRAMS. 



(Vol. iv., pp. 226. 297.) 



As anagrams have been admitted into your 

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(1.) Every one will allow that " Notes and 

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Hoping the editor, who must be accustomed, 

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As some of your readers feel an interest in 

 anagrams, I venture to make an additional con- 

 tribution. Polemics apart, it will strike most 

 persons as remarkably happy : 

 " But, holie father, I am certifyed 

 Tliat they youre power and policye deride ; 

 And how of yen they make an anagram, 

 The best and fiitterest that the wits could frame. 

 As thus : 

 Supremus Ponlifex Romanus. 



Annagramma : 

 non sum super petram fixus." 



It occurs in Taylor's Suddaine Turne of For- 

 tunes Wheele, lately printed for private circulation, 

 under the care of Mr. Halliwell. C. II. 



I am surprised not one of your correspondents 

 has noticed the anagram by George Herbert on 



